Location: mexico, United States
Will technology leapfrog depletion and save drivers from the cost of triple-digit oil? Every auto producer in the world has an electric car in the works; General Motors, of course, will start producing its Volt later this year. But in actuality,...
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Location: north ameica, United States
Segway teams with GM on new PUMA electric urban vehicle
New Hampshire-based personal transportation company Segway Inc. announced a deal with General Motors Corp. to produce a two-wheeled, electric-powered urban transportation vehicle....
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Location: North America, United States
Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., today unveiled the FT-CH dedicated hybrid concept at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. The FT-CH is a concept that would address Toyota’s stated strategy to offer a wider variety...
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Location: mexico, United States
Toyota may be on the verge of making hybrid history again — this time with a model smaller and much less expensive than its groundbreaking Prius.
This week, the Japanese automaker unveiled its FT-CH hybrid sedan concept at the Detroit auto...
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Location: mexico, United States
Electric cars are all the buzz again. Although there are very few data points, this seems to happen on a demi-century cycle. The first electric car rolled out of the garage … er, barn … in the mid-1830’s. The batteries of the era didn’t get Robert...
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Location: mexico, United States
With the Detroit auto show suffering from a drought of groundbreaking model launches by the city's incumbent carmakers, the focus has shifted towards an alternative motoring future based on innovation and inventions.
This year, Michigan State...
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Location: mexico, United States
Car giant Saab has announced it is to build 100 test versions of an electric model Saab 9-3 during 2010, which will be leased to individuals and companies across Sweden.
The announcement came late last week as the company also confirmed that...
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Location: delhi, India
Necessity is the mother of invention, not desire. So it’s fitting that the world’s first hybrid motorcycle to market is about as fashionable as a brick on two wheels.
The ET-120 will be heading to Indian shores and boasts a mpg rating of about...
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Location: Evarts,Ky, United States
My idea is an invention of an electric car that the driver will not have to stop to recharge, no gas needed, and it will not have to be recharged in between drives. I can't find any auto's that offer this. I have the idea, I need a...
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Location: mexico, United States
These batteries could be viewed as the twenty-first century’s ‘new oil’, with any country able to produce them securing a significant portion of their energy future.
It means lessening dependence on the whims of the crude oil price and the...
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Location: mexico, United States
I’ll keep you in suspense about my New Year’s resolutions, but a group called EcoCAR, which is working with young university-based engineers on a contest to design the green ride of the future, has got a few. And combined with Plug-In America’s...
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Goal: Reduce NOx emissions by 90%
A new device that works like a miniature refinery onboard a vehicle promises to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions (the main contributor to smog) to one-tenth of the amount generated by current vehicles. The...
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Location: NY, United States
In 1993, the Office of Advanced Automotive Technologies initiated a government/industry partnership to develop a hybrid propulsion system for a mid-size sedan capable of achieving 50 miles per gallon while maintaining other customer-desired...
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Location: California, United States
Goal: Reduce drag for a more aerodynamic truck design
Flow behavior in the gap between truck tractors and trailers is particularly difficult to understand, but it plays an essential role in the aerodynamic performance of large trucks. Ideally,...
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Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Goal: Reduce drag on trucks by using aircraft technology
Heavy trucks consume lots of fuel in overcoming aerodynamic drag and rolling resistance. For tractor-trailers, drag and rolling resistance predominate on level roads; at highway speeds of...
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Location: Sandia, United States
Why isn't NASA's Space Shuttle shaped like a truck? Because it has to be aerodynamic, of course, to fly through the Earth's atmosphere. In fact, however, heavy-duty trucks move through the atmosphere, too (even though their tires stay on the...
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Location: Oak Ridge, United States
Goal: Identify optimal combinations of new fuels, lubricants, engine designs, and emission control systems that will enable diesel-powered vehicles to meet projected emission standards
A quiet revolution has been sweeping diesel engine...
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Location: Oak Ridge, United States
Goal: Develop an emissions control strategy that will allow heavy-duty diesels to meet 2007 emission standards
Sulfur in fuel causes sulfur dioxide pollution and limits the effectiveness and life span of emission control systems. The Diesel...
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Location: Berkeley, United States
Goal: Develop experimental and computational methods for predicting lithium-battery performance
If you can't measure something, how can you improve it? That's the question driving efforts to create better models of the way the electrochemical...
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Location: Berkeley, United States
Goal: Identify chemical additives that improve the safety of lithium-ion batteries
Advanced lithium-ion batteries are being developed for use in electric and hybrid electric vehicles. Unlike competing battery technologies, however, conventional...
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